# 22.07.2025 - MGC Trade 3

## 📌 Setup & Context

There is a bug occurred with MotiveWave 7 (beta 8), for unknown reason order and trade not shown on chart, also order not recorded in history, data about it's entry and exit took from Rithmic. Will contact support for report. Entry and exit marked on footprint chart

- **Location in Profile**: Breakout from POC in direction with yesterday trend.

- **Screenshot at 30m**:
@MGC - Context - Jul-22 1427 PM (30 min)

- **Screenshot at 3m**:
@MGC - Footprint - Jul-22 1456 PM (3 min)_


## ⚙️ Execution

- **Trigger Type**: Delta Shift / Absorption / Sweep / Footprint Imbalance / Tape
- **Entry Reason**: Footprint Imbalance, Increase in Volume
- **Exit Reason**: Exit was made due to problem with MotiveWave, order was not displayed on chart, I didn't notice that I open bracket order with 1.5R, so trade was closed due to TP.

## 📈 Outcome
- **Win**
- **Would I take this trade again?**: Yes
- **Emotion check**: Calm, Confident

## 🔁 Review Flags
- [ ] Hesitation
- [ ] Poor read
- [x] Good execution
- [ ] Misjudged context
- [ ] Impulse

# 23.07.2025 - MES

## 📊 Context


- **Opening Type**: Open Drive
- **Opening Location**: Outside Value
- **Day Type (Projection)**: Unknown
- **Shape Type (TPO)**: P
- **Overnight Range**: Wide
- **Bias**: ⚪ Neutral
- **Narrative**: Expect to rotate in previous 2 days range

@MES - Context - Jul-23 1000 AM (30 min)


# .23.07.2025 - MGC

## 📊 Context

- **Opening Type**:Open Auction In Range
- **Opening Location**: Inside Value
- **Day Type (Projection)**: Normal
- **Shape Type (TPO)**:b
- **Overnight Range**: .Narrow
- **Bias**: ⚪ Neutral
- **Narrative**: Price created round top, expect to mean reversion or pullback to previous day value area..

@MGC - Context - Jul-23 0959 AM (30 min)


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# 23.07.2025 - MCL

## 📊 Context

- **Opening Type**: Open Auction In Range
- **Opening Location**: Inside Value
- **Day Type (Projection)**: Normal
- **Shape Type (TPO)**: D
- **Overnight Range**: .Narrow
- **Balance Zone (if any)**:
- **Bias**: 🔴 Bearish
- **Narrative**: .Rotate in previous day range with bearish sentiment

@MCL - Context - Jul-23 1000 AM (30 min)

Due to luck of time, didn't open any trades today, but builded narrative in morning context - was confirmed.

# 24.07.2025 - MES

## 📊 Context

- **Opening Type**: Open Auction In Range
- **Opening Location**: Above VAH
- **Day Type (Projection)**: Normal
- **Shape Type (TPO)**: D
- **Overnight Range**: Narrow
- **Bias**: 🔴 Bearish
- **Narrative**: Form a pullback in previous day value

@MES - Context - Jul-24 0922 AM (30 min)


24.07.2025 - MCL

## 📊 Context


- **Opening Type**: Open Rejection Reverse
- **Opening Location**: Inside Value / Outside Value / Above VAH / Below VAL
- **Day Type (Projection)**: Unknown
- **Shape Type (TPO)**: b
- **Overnight Range**: Narrow

- **Bias**: ⚪ Neutral
- **Narrative**: Test again today high

@MCL - Context - Jul-24 0923 AM (30 min)


24.07.2025
## 📊 Context


- **Opening Type**: Open Auction In Range
- **Opening Location**: Below VAL
- **Day Type (Projection)**: Double Distribution
- **Shape Type (TPO)**: D
- **Overnight Range**: Wide
- **Balance Zone (if any)**:
- **Bias**: 🔴 Bearish
- **Narrative**: Test previous day value
@MGC - Context - Jul-24 0923 AM (30 min)

# 24.07.2025 - MGC Trade 1

## 📌 Setup & Context

- **Location in Profile**: Leaving HVN
- **Screenshot at 30m**:
@MGC - Context - Jul-24 1000 AM (30 min)

- **Screenshot at 3m**:
@MGC - Footprint - Jul-24 1000 AM (3 min)



## ⚙️ Execution

- **Trigger Type**: Delta Shift, Tape, Volume increase
- **Entry Reason**: Price left HVN in direction with trend, volume increased
- **Exit Reason**: Volume start to decrease, saw possible absorption.

## 📈 Outcome
- **Win**
- **Would I take this trade again?** Yes
- **Emotion check**: Calm, Confident

## 🔁 Review Flags
- [ ] Hesitation
- [ ] Poor read
- [x] Good execution
- [ ] Misjudged context
- [ ] Impulse

# 24.05.2025 - MES Trade 2

## 📌 Setup & Context

- **Location in Profile**: LVN

- **Screenshot at 30m**:
@MES - Context - Jul-24 1016 AM (30 min)

- **Screenshot at 3m**:
@MES - Footprint - Jul-24 1016 AM (3 min)



## ⚙️ Execution

- **Trigger Type**: Volume increase, delta shift
- **Entry Reason**: Price start to be rejected from LVN in direction to POC
- **Exit Reason**: Absorption

## 📈 Outcome
- **Win**
- **Would I take this trade again?** Yes
- **Emotion check**oubtful

## 🔁 Review Flags
- [x] Hesitation
- [ ] Poor read
- [ ] Good execution
- [ ] Misjudged context
- [ ] Impulse

# 25.07.2025 - MGC Trade 3

## 📌 Setup & Context

- **Location in Profile**: LVN

- **Screenshot at 30m**:
@MGC - Context - Jul-24 1233 PM (30 min)

- **Screenshot at 3m**:
@MGC - Footprint - Jul-24 1234 PM (3 min)


## ⚙️ Execution

- **Trigger Type**: Delta Shift, Volume increase
- **Entry Reason**: Consider it as reversal
- **Exit Reason**: Price stuck on quickly low without, Initial idea was rejection of this level, but with time I assume possible breakout.

## 📈 Outcome
- **Breakeven**
- **Would I take this trade again?** No
- **Emotion check**: Doubtful

## 🔁 Review Flags
- [ ] Hesitation
- [x] Poor read
- [ ] Good execution
- [x] Misjudged context
- [ ] Impulse

# 24.07.2025 - MES Trade 4

## 📌 Setup & Context

- **Location in Profile**: HVN, Inside Balance

- **Screenshot at 30m**:
@MES - Context - Jul-24 1235 PM (30 min)

- **Screenshot at 3m**:
@MES - Footprint - Jul-24 1236 PM (3 min)


## ⚙️ Execution

- **Trigger Type**: Delta Shift, Tape
- **Entry Reason**: Price left balance zone rejecting previous day high
- **Exit Reason**: Possible absorption

## 📈 Outcome
- **Win**
- **Would I take this trade again?** Yes
- **Emotion check**: Calm

## 🔁 Review Flags
- [ ] Hesitation
- [ ] Poor read
- [x] Good execution
- [ ] Misjudged context
- [ ] Impulse

I’ve realized a fundamental flaw in the advice often shared online:

“Fade breakouts — price will return to value.”

This mindset ignores the context of market auctions and misinterprets single prints and imbalance. It leads to premature exits and poor positioning against trend days or new value discovery.

I used to fear ranges after breakouts and often exited too early.

New Understanding

If I trade momentum, I must wait for a breakout from balance and ride the discovery process, not fight it.

• A range after breakout often reflects responsive sellers — not a failed breakout.
• These ranges may resolve higher if imbalance continues.
• Single prints often show initiative strength, not reversion zones.
• If I tighten stops below the range (not exit entirely), I allow structure to develop while managing risk.

OLD BEHAVIOR
• Fade single prints assuming reversion.
• Exit breakout trades if range forms.

NEW STRATEGY
• Entry: Breakout from balance with volume/delta confirmation.
• Context: Price moving away from accepted value = new value discovery.
• Risk: Stop below last structural base or range low.
• Patience: Hold unless clear rejection (absorption + reversal delta) occurs.
• Avoid: Fading moves on trend/double distribution days.

I used to define support/resistance zones by price rejections — areas where price touched and turned. But now I realize:

Rejection alone doesn’t make a zone strong.
It’s not about the rejection itself, but about who controls the rejection.

Observation:
• A price can turn at resistance because buyers exit (passive behavior).
• Or because sellers aggressively enter (initiative behavior).
• The first creates weak zones prone to retests or failures.
• The second creates true resistance, based on auction aggression.

Same applies for support:
• Buyers stepping in aggressively = true support.
• Sellers just exiting = not a strong base.

Practical Implication

Not all rejections are equal. I need to analyze volume, delta, and aggressor behavior to know if the level has strength.

• Don’t assume rejection = valid resistance/support.
• Always check: Was there initiative pressure or passive withdrawal?
• Prioritize:
• Zones where aggressors took control.
• Volume clusters + large delta shifts.
• Absorption zones where price tried but failed to move.